Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-26

/. ny 6utumn " this year. loss, Inc plague
e Gray's Inn and remover 70 Twick-
III lses " nnd him taking leading part il
ptAony, about this Time, leaves his brother
and goes 10 live near the Bull Inn, Id Bishops
gete.street, where ten or twelve OF the Shakes,
"a 1915, 81 his soliciting the ONCE Of aAtor.
ney Or sOlicltor-g raj. he is passed over, and
rettres much hurt, to Twickenham. S1' !. 5.8
nv ia his private conecton 81 notes iPromus
). Note Sc .la5 ct Tviokenham for merry
The merry tales tor which he was thus preparing
arc believed 70 have bsen so1ns Of those plays les
Dysam, M Merchant ~ Venice, "a Henry ~ (, and
As Wsu maj Ends Van soon TO appear, full of isgal
pointa and illusions which; 10 much exercised the
mind Of Lord Canpbell. ,5S 5s 31 ,5
Bacons life is now retired and private; his time
and attention are mainly devoted to philosophical
and literary work. The plays appear at intervals,
and continue to do 70 during the next twelve years.
letter e about this date 70 his intimate aad
jalluding by name to certain Of his own published
works, speaks OF his other works, works Of his
recreation" He also writes, 'Those other works Of
you now are thsn a but il regard that sonas
friends Of yours hare still insisted send them you',
What these works Of the alphabet may have
BEEN says SPEEDING Bscons biosrspher. y csn-
In 1923 Bacon writes 70 Sir T. Matthew. about
'sputtng the alphabet in fraMe;" II this was their
cipher, the frame was the 1923 Folio. Such enig-
NAUTICAL talk between two friends is evidence that
thcy both interested In some secret which they
would not openly refer to. 4 tsz5iI s 55s
y In 1900 Bacon writes, speaking Of his mother ct
GorhambMy and Of his desire to keep her from
anxiety, her health being very worn. From this time
until her death, nothing III heard Of this clever,
commanding woman except Bishop Goodmanb NJ
mark that she Was tle better than frantic" in her
n1d 0nA n n hat otf h{a k,v,ro t1Sn
symptoms OF madness have evidently been closely
studied BY the author OF Hamlet and Lear whoever
he may have been. g42 s.# s2 Es5 ~ p
had, BY express commapd Of the Queen, been CONF
PEELED to take an unwilling part) followed by his
execution must have been great misery to Francis
bad health, the shock was such as to hasten his
death. This further terrible blow to Francis, the
death Of '.Anthonie his coforte his ''beloved and
loving brother" added to his mothers lamsntable
mental condition. and the other trying circumstances
OF his life at this time, rendered it indeed dark
period such az Shakespearean commentators have
discovered In the plays, Hfsg John. Jalfas Caesar.
Hamlet, Lear and OkheAo which date from this period
and which shakespeareans have attempted rather
nnsaccessfuy to harmonic with facts in the life Of
the now rich and prosperous manager Of the Globe
Theater. FfsrE,s ~. r'sS. 81. ~ VIZ
About this time Sir Toby Matthew, in. one Of his
enigmatical lettars to Bacon, says in acknowledg.
ment Of some worn not specified, II will not return
you weight Tor weight, but nsaGsurs for saedsure."
passing between them, it seems plain that the plays
connected with the enigma, and that Sir Tobie
Matthew's and Bacons jargon about the 'salphabetn
belongs to the same topic as nseasuye for easye."
In 1908 Queen Elizabeth dies and James I. is
crowned King. Bacon writes to Sir John Davis. the
poet, asking him to give him good word with the
King, concluding his letter with the mystic words,
$50 desiring you TO be good 10 concealed poets. am,
To this year, 1908, Otheao and Hing Lear are at
tributed. Both plays have hit at the patents and
monopoliee, the abolition Of which Bacon was con-
cerned in bringing about.
In 1906 y 10 passed an act Of Parliament against
witches. James believing in their influence, and
Bacon partly sharing in the belief. Macbeth appears
In this year; in It, mixed up with Bacons inquiries
into witchcraft, is found much which exhibits his
studies Of the winds, of dense and rare, and Of the
action of mind upon body. etc. -
In 1905, when in his forty sixth year, Bacon mar
ries Alice Barham q lady Of fortune. The marriage
does not appear to have been happy one. @&
h In 1907 Bacon Is at last promoted to the ohoe Of
solicitor general. ii -''sf'- ,-. G
In 1910 W7nters Tale and cyn.5et~e are published.
Winters Tale includes number Of Bacon's observa-
tions horticulture the virtues of plants and other
matters connected with his notes on the '.Regimen
Of Health.'' Rinter'8 Tale also contains Bacon's
peculiar doctrine about art being mature in
bonds"-a doctrine which Bacon claims as his own,
never recognized before Cybeline reflects some of
his remarks vivisection, and his observations
the effects Of posons also does Ansony dnd Cleo
pat,u. " = = /" g. &st'@. -%%
Bacon is fellow-member With the Earls Of Penn
broke, Southampton and Montgomery in the Vir-
ginian Company, which sends out to the West Indies
feet, which is terribly vexed by storms; the ship
admiral" is wrecked the Bermudas. To these
incidents we probably owe the production of The
In Tne Tempest also, we zee distilled into poetry
Bacon's later s.Studes of Heat and Cold' "History
Of Winds" 'sEbb AID Flow of the Sea-, Sailing Of
From this time until 1923 new plays cease to ap-
pear Bacon was during this period engrossed in his
work as soieitor general and, later, on the bench